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Arlington, VA
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DC Metro Rider Beats 65-Year-Old Man Before Nationals Game, Prosecutors Say
It started with a trip to the Nationals game. It ended with a stranger in handcuffs and a senior citizen in the hospital. A 20-year-old man from the District has been indicted on a felony assault charge after allegedly attacking a 65-year-old man at the Navy Yard Metro Station in DC last summer, officials announced. Te’Vaughn Brown is accused of punching the Peter Munro in the face and head multiple times in an unprovoked assault on Aug. 9, 2024, according to the US Attorney’s Office. The attack happened just before 3:30 p.m. on game day, as the victim exited a train and tried to walk up t…
Mount Vernon, NY
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We’ve Got To Ditch Single-Use Plastics
We’ve got to ditch single-use plastics. We have adopted a disposable lifestyle in which around 50% of plastic is used once and then thrown away. Today, single-use plastics present some of the biggest environmental hazards because plastic can take up to 1,000 years to biodegrade. (A plastic water bottle takes 450 years.) And when plastic breaks down into microplastics, tiny 5mm particles, the dangers increase exponentially. When you discard plastics, they remain in landfills for decades. Contrary to popular belief, only 6% of plastic (actually) gets recycled. As plastics biodegrade, they can…
